Non-fiction books that I have enjoyed (in no particular order)
My Top 10:
Focus: A simplicity manifesto in the Age of Distraction by Leo Babauta
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by The Dalai Lama
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best by Richard Koch
Psychology/Personal Development:
– Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap by Jim Collins
– A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
– The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
– Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions by Dan Ariely
– Switch: How to Change Things When Chang Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
– Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
– How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
– The Art of Non-Comformity by Chris Guillebeau
– Art of Money Getting by PT Barnum
– The Success System that Never Fails by William Clement
– Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
– Zen to Done by Leo Babauta
– The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
– The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
– Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
– Focus by Leo Babauta
– The 80/20 Principal: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch
– The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best by Richard Koch
– The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
– The 4 Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
– What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 by Tina Lynn Seelig
– Delivering Happiness: Delivering Happines: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
– The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
– Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon
– Strength Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath
– Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill and W. Stone
– The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living by Randy Komisar
– Beyond Basketball: Coach K’s Keywords of Success by Mike Krzyweski
– Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
– Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
– Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
– Mans Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
– Never Eat Alone: And Other Secretes to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi
– 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
– The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley
– Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
– Cashflow Quadrant by Robert T. Kiyosaki
– Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing by Robert T. Kiyosaki
– Retire Young Retire Rich by Robert T. Kiyosaki
– The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
– Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
– Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
– Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealthy and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass. R. Sustein
– The Business of Memory by Charles Baxter
– Values of the Game by Bill Bradley
– Lessons on Life – Jim Rohn
– Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
– Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Dan Heath and Chip Heath
– Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
– ProBlogger by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett
– How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
Marketing/Business:
– Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs by Brain Halligan and Dharmesh Shah
– Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story – Peter Guber
– The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable of Real Success in Business and in Life – Robin Sharma
– Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
– The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray Smith
– Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
– The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up by Norm Bordsky and Bo Burlingham
– Living Rich by Spending Smart by Gregory Karp
– The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout
– Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston
– The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries and Laura Ries
– Getting Real by 37 Signals
– Engage by Brian Solis
– The Wealthy Freelancer by Steve Slaunwhite, Pete Savage and Ed Gandia
– Startup Nation by Rich Sloan and Jeff Sloan
– Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham
– The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Meerman
– Word of Mouth Marketing by Andy Sernovitz
– Positioning: The Battle for your Mind by Al Ries and Jack Trout
– Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk
– The Art of War by Sun Tzu
– The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
– The 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
– Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille
– Dont Make me Think by Steve Krug
– E-myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber
– Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeir Hansson
– Work 101: Learning the Ropes of the Workplace without Hanging Yourself by Elizabeth Freedman
Biographies:
– Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
– Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
– The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
– Losing My Virginity: How I’ve Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
– The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
– Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama
– The Warren Buffet Way by Robert G. Hagstrom
– Drive: The Story of My Life by Larry Bird
Religion/Philosophy:
– Walden by Henry David Thoreau
– Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
– Ethics by Aristotle
– Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
– Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
– Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan
– Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul by John Elderage
– The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
– The Journey of Desire by John Elderge
– Abbas Child by Brennan Manning
– Letters From a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father’s Questions about Christianity by Dr. Gregory A. Boyd and Edward Boyd
– Awakening the Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das
– The Art of Happiness by The Dalai Lama
– Tao Te Ching – LAO TSU
– Buddha by Deepak Chopra
– The Book of Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto
– The Compassionate Life by The Dalai Lama
